Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
December 7th, 2016 at 12:01PM
My son is a Hampshire graduate, a skeptical kid, hardly nostalgic for his college days, or a fan of alum activities or groups. But, recently, he told me he has been very proud of the school’s recent protests and was active on social media in support.
That supposedly educated people can see reality so differently continues to seem unreal to me while, of course, being a major pillar of current reality. It goes back way before Ronnie and Mommy, and, in a more open way, the GWB people publicly tearing up whatever membership cards they ever had in the “reality based community.” You can step off a 30 story ledge and assert, even believe, you’re flying until the concrete rises up to meet you. Certainly, this is not something that just started in the late campaign that seemed to drag on for centuries. But like a falling object at 32 feet/second squared it speeds, headlong, toward an anarchy of thinking.
The Thanksgiving stories of cancelation of family dinners reminded me of nothing more than the divisions — deep, long crevices over fault lines in families– that opened up in this country during the Civil War and in the years before.
But, on this blog, nothing new to see here, just move on. Thanks for a space to vent a little, even if in an unoriginal way.
December 7th, 2016 at 4:46PM
didn’t see this coming:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/megyn-kelly-on-trump-and-the-media-were-in-a-dangerous-phase-right-now/
December 8th, 2016 at 3:08PM
If there really were a bunch of overt racists at A&M, it seems very strange that they did not flock to hear this guy. The article suggests that none of the handful of sympathizers who showed up was obviously an A&M student. It sounds as though his message is falling on stony ground indeed.